[zfs-discuss] recommendations for a 50 TB zpool?

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Sat 2018-11-03 (20:02), Ted Cabeen via zfs-discuss wrote:
> I have a 700TB array built on 12-drive RAIDZ2 vdevs.  Works fine, 
> rebuilds are long, but not super long, and should get better now that 
> sequential resilver is almost released.

"sequential resilver" is a new ZFS feature?
I have not used ZFS for the last 3 years, so I am a little bit out of
business :-}


> Do you need synchronous writes?  If not, with sequential reads, you 
> don't need SLOG or L2ARC, just put in a decent amount of memory, and set 
> recordsize to 1MB.

"synchronous writes" means data will be written directly to disks?
We have a good UPS, so synchronous writes are not that important.
The server will have 32 GB of RAM, the application needs less than 1 GB.


Reading 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Caching_mechanisms:_ARC_(L1),_L2ARC,_Transaction_groups,_SLOG_(ZIL)
"can be added or removed from a "live" system without disruption"

Therefore I could add it later, if necessary.

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